Tire-healing compound.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY s. emswonn, or rnonnrx, AnIzonA 'rnnm'ronv.

TIRE-HEALING COMPOUND.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY citizen of the United States, residing atPhoenix, in the county of Maricopa and Territory of Arizona, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tire- Healing Compounds,of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to tire healing compounds andmoreparticularly to a fluid composition adapted to beintroduced into apneumatic tire to heal small punctures and the like, my object being toprovide a composition embodying a minimum number of inexpensiveingredients which may be mixed without the necessity of any tediousoperation or complicated apparatus, which is not injurious to the rubberor fabric of. .the tire, but acts as a preservative thereof, and whichmay be readily removed from articles of clothing.

To this end my invention consists of a tough and elastic base of a gummyor glutinous character, preferably gum tragacanth, to which is added atough resilient flour, preferabl flour of slippery elm, which I havefoun 'to be admirably adapted for this use, with the possible exceptionof its tendency to spoil, This is, however. oif'setby' the ad-Specification of Letters Yatent.

Patented Nov. 1', 1910.

'A'pplication filed July 16, i910. Serial No. 572,380.

dition of the third ingredient which is asepsin, a trade-name for anantiseptic compound manufactured by Lloyd Bros, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

composition in a soft andpliable state and will prevent putrefa-ctionorbacterialformation. The last ingredient is water, enough of which isadded to bring the composition to the desired consistency.

I have found that one fourth of an ounce of asepsin four ounces of gumtragacant-h ounces of flour of slippery elm, add about five gallons ofwater.

I claim: v l

1. A tire healing compound comprising water, flour of slippery elm, aglutinous material, and an antiseptic preservative.

2. A tire healing compound comprising water, flour of slippery elm, gumtragacanth,

and sixteen to which I and an antiseptic preservative.

In testimony whereof I afli my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY s. GRISWOLD.

Witnesses i WM. H. SARGENT, THEODORE NOAGK.

This latter ingredient is a fragrant preservative which will keep the issufficient for a mixture of

